Verse comedy is interesting to me because of the challenge of writing in rhymed couplets, which is not a form that's usually amenable to English, yet to me it gives great possibility for comedy.

With my plays, when the lights go down, at least the audience isn't thinking, 'Oh, God, two more hours of this.

Plays are always about intense relationships, whether they're intense love relationships or family relationships or existential relationships.

I've taught both screenwriting and playwriting, and playwriting is both much harder and much more rewarding. One can teach people how to tell a story in cinematic ways, but theater is a much more elusive craft.

I think everything should be in verse. 'The New York Times' should be in verse.

Verse comedy is interesting to me because of the challenge of writing in rhymed couplets, which is not a form that's usually amenable to English, yet to me it gives great possibility for comedy.

I admire pop songs that are perfect at three minutes.